Shaldon Water Carnival's 50th Queen, Georgina Bayliss – together with her attendant princesses Hannah Pile and Grace Whitaker – have been crowned .

Crowds gathered on Shaldon's village green to see the ceremony and were entertained by Cllr Clarance, whose late father was one of the instigators of the water carnival.

Cllr Clarance gave his audience a potted history of the water carnival, and talked about his own childhood memories of the event.

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